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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr., Miami Dade College

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Pre-College Engineering Education

computing. Also, pre- and post-exam scoreswere reported to analyze student performance outcomes. These results are presented to show thepotential of such an outreach program to build capacity and broaden participation in thecomputing field through emerging technology.IntroductionWith the computing industry projected to grow much faster than other industries over the next 10years, and as emerging technologies (EmTech) within computing-related fields such as cloudcomputing, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data science grow and develop into mainstreamtechnologies, many skilled jobs may go unfilled and business growth is threatened due to theshortage of trained professionals in these specializations [1]. For the past three consecutive years,cloud computing

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; John Gambatese, Oregon State University

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Construction Engineering

officer”, and “Safety Manager”, among others.For a more precise definition of their job description, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics,through their Occupational Outlook Handbook, defines the job “Health and Safety Engineers”as follows: “Health and safety engineers combine knowledge of engineering and of health and safety to develop procedures and design systems to protect people from illness and injury and property from damage.” [1]Similarly, the job description for the occupation of Health and safety Specialists andTechnicians is described as: “Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians collect data on and analyze many types of work environments and work procedures.” [2]According to O*Net, the

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Peng Li, East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

Paper ID #33523Experience in Moving Information and Computer Technology Courses On-lineDr. Peng Li, East Carolina University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Experience in Moving Information and Computer Technology Courses Online1. INTRODUCTIONThe COVID-19 pandemic brought tremendous challenges to higher education institutions. Manycolleges moved most or all courses online, at least temporarily. New technologies, such as highspeed internet and cloud computing, make it easier to deliver courses remotely. It is expectedthat the share of hybrid and online courses will grow [1] with

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Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

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Joseph Valle, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; Israa Ali, University of Michigan ; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, what their strike participation encompassed, andwhat broader relationships they see between their position as engineering students, unionorganizing, and engineering as a discipline.Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization, American Federation of Teachers local3550 (GEO) engaged in a strike from September 8th to September 16th, 2020, striking for a safeand just pandemic response at a large public university [1]. Strike demands centered on safetyand justice relating to both COVID-19 and policing. These demands centered common goodelements around a universal right to work remotely during a pandemic, improvements to parentand caregiver accommodations, the waiving of fees levied on the international studentcommunity, extensions to degree

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Ingrid Buckley, Florida Gulf Coast University; Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University

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the software testing courseearlier in the curriculum and implementing a peer-evaluation process for the group projects. Theserecommendations are consistent with other experience reports described in the literature.1 IntroductionThe ubiquity of software continues to grow as more systems are becoming software-dependent.These systems include small devices for IoT components to large systems that run video streamingapplications [1]. The increased ubiquity of software has resulted in the need for more softwareengineers to service all aspects of the software development life cycle, including maintaining soft-ware quality. It is estimated that the poor quality of software for 2018 has resulted in a loss ofmore than $2.26 trillion to the US economy

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

idea to a testable prototype. In this paper, we will show innovativeexperiential learning approaches and their outcomes. This includes samples of studentdemonstrations and projects, and several learning activities used as part of the experiential andentrepreneurial education. We will also present prototypical course requirements, such as customersurvey, market analysis, proposals for projects, project reports, and designingand building prototypes. This work will be beneficial to other educators to style their experientiallearning approaches.IntroductionNortheastern University (NU) Global Experience Office (GEO)1 set up several special programsavailable to all students to provide intellectually challenging and culturally enriching

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, Ohlone College; Gabe Hanzel-Sello, Growth Sector; David Gruber, Growth Sector

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

recruitingEngineering and Engineering Technicians and also the Department of Apprenticeship Standards(DAS) recommended standards/recommendations for recruiting apprentices. The framework istailored to broaden participation especially from socio-economically disproportionately impacteddemographics of students.Participant Preparation and Selection ProcessIn order to be eligible for the internships, students must have completed Precalculus 1,Precalculus 2, Introduction to Engineering (Problem Solving & Prototyping) and EngineeringGraphics & Design(CAD) before Summer. Prior to their first day of class in fall, all studentsattended an orientation on Ohlone’s campus meant to prepare them for the semester. Throughfall and spring semesters leading to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc.

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

in engineering education. We seek to identify the factors that promote persistence andgraduation as well as attrition for Black students in Electrical Engineering (EE), ComputerEngineering (CpE), and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Our work combines quantitativeexploration and qualitative interviews to better understand the nuanced and complex nature ofretention and attrition in these fields. We are investigating the following overarching researchquestions: 1. Why do Black men and women choose and persist in, or leave, EE, CpE, and ME? 2. What are the academic trajectories of Black men and women in EE, CpE, and ME? 3. In what ways do these pathways vary by gender or institution? 4. What institutional policies and practices

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Esmeralda Campos, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Carlos Eduardo Martinez-Torteya, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

forcompetency-based education, new educational models, and the perception among students andparents of high-value/low-cost education. In addition, the pandemic brought new problems touniversities: financial difficulties, lower students' enrollment and credit registrations, and theneed for improved technological advances to facilitate effective online or distance education anda more satisfying student experience. Our institution, a private multi-campus Mexican university,has been preparing for these old and new challenges by migrating the traditional, lecture-basededucational model to a challenge-based learning methodology that emphasizes competenciesinstead of educational objectives [1].Challenge-based learning (CBL) has been used in different

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Learning Outcomes and Assessment Within Chemical Engineering

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Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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Chemical Engineering

to fully remote learning motivatedthe exploration of alternative assessment methods that measure student learning outcomes,encourage student creativity, eliminate the need for proctoring and don’t require face-to-faceadministration.Course Context for the StudyThe method was first explored in Fluid Mechanics, a sophomore level course in the chemicalengineering curriculum. It was offered in the Spring 2020 semester. The course is offered onceper year in the Spring. The textbook is Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers by Noel DeNevers. The material covered in the course does not follow the order of the textbook. The examcoverage is as follows:  Exam 1: material balances, pumps and compressors  Exam 2: fluid friction in steady one

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Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change

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Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Iowa State University; Dana AlZoubi, Iowa State University; Evrim Baran, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

strategies in their classrooms.Results indicated that collaborative learning and problem-based learning were two most commonly usedactive learning strategies, while 1-minute paper and peer instruction were the least commonly usedstrategies. Participants agreed that active learning improved student learning outcomes, and motivatedstudents to participate in the class, but required an increased workload during the development ofactivities. The results of this study may inform future faculty development efforts on adoption of activelearning strategies in classrooms that were proven to improve student learning and retention inengineering education.IntroductionActive learning approach has gained increasing popularity in engineering education. The

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First-year Programs: Focus on Student Success 2

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Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University

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learn more about the differentengineering disciplines and other engineering-related topics. By having both in- and out-of-classrequirements as well as a peer review, this assignment series was designed to encourage betterparticipation among the students.Exploring Engineering logisticsAfter successfully integrating a peer sharing presentation series in the learning strategies courseof the General Engineering Learning Community [1], [2], the assignment was translated for usewithin Clemson’s introductory general engineering courses. Given the name “ExploringEngineering,” the adapted assignment allows students to engage with pressing issues and trendswithin the field of engineering and investigate the topics in which they are most

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Faculty Development Division Poster Session

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Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Yutao Zhong, George Mason University; Mark Huntington Snyder, George Mason University; Elizabeth L. White, George Mason University

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a newly expanded graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training programin a computer science department. As part of an NSF-funded project that aims to transformteaching practices in highly enrolled gateway STEM courses, the computer science (CS)department at a research-focused state institution is working to integrate active learning practicesin its CS 1 (freshman level) and CS 2 (sophomore level) courses. The combined courses haveenrollments of nearly 1,000 students each semester, with lecture sections of 100-200 studentsand software lab sections of 25-30 students. Lab sections are led by GTAs, and hence GTAprofessional development plays a large role in transforming the teaching and learning approachesin these courses.The CS department at the

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Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Aristides Carrillo-Fernandez, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Corey T. Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’ abilities and tendencies to empathize with and for members. Moreover, we hope thatthis work will provide a foundation for future research focused on how empathy can promotemore effective engineering design teams.Keywords: Empathy; Design Projects; Teamwork; Team Dynamics; Team DevelopmentIntroductionProviding students with effective collaboration skills is a core and required feature of accreditedundergraduate and graduate engineering programs. Thus, it is important to understand factorsthat contribute to more effective teaming experiences. One defining feature of effectiveintergroup relationships (and, thus, teams) is empathy [1-3] but relatively few studies inengineering education have focused on how students in engineering empathize with

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Faculty Development Division Poster Session

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Steven Edalgo, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Cindy M. Lee, Clemson University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational research emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development Initiatives-Clemson, 2

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Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

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Qin Liu, University of Toronto; Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

instruction during the pandemic offered both challenges andopportunities for producing self-directed learners. We recommend that engineering schoolsimplement more interventions to help engineering students enhance their self-directed learningcapabilities.Keywords: online, self-directed learning, motivation, social cognitive perspective, pandemicIntroduction The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented academic disruptions topostsecondary education, alongside tremendous social and economic impacts to almost all sectors. InCanada, over 90% of postsecondary campuses moved some or all their courses online in response tothe pandemic, according to a Statistics Canada survey report in May 2020 [1]. After a summer ofintense planning

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Student Division Technical Session 6

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Hamidreza Taimoory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kazuki Hori, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Student

). Successful groups are advantageous for students in different ways: 1) groups enhancestudent’s reasoning and higher thinking; 2) groups help students learn to accommodate otherstudents’ perspectives about problems; 3) groups help students develop cognitive processing andintegrating information; and 4) groups help students learn how to give and receiveencouragement and foster acceptance among their team members (Bossert, 1988). Other authorshave similar articulated that benefits of group work include learning teamwork skills, improvingdeeper learning, and fostering engagement if students find themselves valuable members of thegroup (Sage, Vandagriff, & Schmidt, 2018). However, placing children in a group does not meanthat they will cooperate (D. W

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Motivation, Goal Orientation, Identity, and Career Aspirations

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Lorenzo Laxamana Ruiz, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

student responses andexamine how they make connections between their personal values and the ways those valuesmight contribute to their success in the classroom. Three dominant themes emerged from studentresponses: 1) Self-improvement; 2) Empathy/Kindness and 3) Helping. These themes provide abetter understanding of the kinds of values that are important to students and offer insight into theirinterest and motivation as it relates to learning in engineering mechanics. Given the abstract,decontextualized mode in which engineering sciences are typically taught, instructors can work toidentify and develop these personal connections and enhance student motivation and expectancyfor success in what are foundational areas of an engineering curriculum

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

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Alejandro H. Espera Jr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer

engineering education is to equip students with appropriate technicalknowledge and skills that are useful for effectively creating solutions to complex real-worldproblems [1], [2]. Students have perceived the introduction of abstract scientific concepts inundergraduate engineering courses such as those that are used in electrical circuit analysis to bedifficult due to their inability to verbalize their knowledge [3], [4]. Apart from the formalinstruction widely used in undergraduate engineering education, instruction calls for innovativeapproaches to teaching electrical circuit courses [5], [6]. The students’ use of fundamentalmathematics to prove key circuit concepts is becoming a helpful tool for them, especially inbridging understanding of circuit

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Leslie Harvey III, University of Florida; Ashish Aggarwal, University of Florida

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Computing and Information Technology

students who submit-ted the quizzes and homeworks 24 hours prior to the submission deadline had significantly higherexam scores as compared to students who submitted during the last 24 hours. Additionally, we alsofound that this difference was only significant for students who did not have prior programmingexperience. This indicates that early submission of assignments can help students who do not haveprior programming experience in improving their overall course performance. By understandingthe major student interaction patterns, we believe that instructors and educators can better designlearning experiences for students in CS1 courses.1 Introduction Computer programming has historically been difficult for students to learn [1, 2]. As

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Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

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Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University; Jacqueline Gartner, Campbell University; Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

semester or two of preparatory mathematics before they are able to take partin the fundamentals of engineering course that is a first-year, first-semester course for studentswho are enrolled in mathematics course of pre-calculus or higher. These populations of studentsare likely to have low social capital or pre-existing networks in areas that would support theircollege experience [1]. Therefore, the peer and faculty mentoring and cross-cohort socializationhave been integrated into the program as ways to help expand the social capital of students whomay need it.Social Capital is the availability, accessibility, and activation of resources via social relationshipsaccording to Lin [1]. While overarching societal structures encompassing

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First-Year Programs: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the First Year

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Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

implementing a curriculum focused on cohort formation, career exploration, andprofessional development. The AcES, consisting of a weeklong pre-fall bridge experience, twocommon courses, and a variety of co-curricular activities, has been operating for eight years.Students who receive S-STEM funded scholarships participate in three focus groups and twoone-on-one interviews each semester throughout their undergraduate studies.Student responses from the one-on-one interviews and focus groups conducted from 2017-2020were examined with qualitative coding methods. Questions examined in this work include: 1)Did the engineering in history course help make you feel like you belong in engineering at WVUand that you are included in engineering at WVU?, 2) Do you

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Bonnie S. Boardman, The University of Texas at Arlington; Caroline C Krejci

of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington. Her research is focused on the development of quantitative methodologies for the anal- ysis and sustainable management of sociotechnical systems, including supply networks and production systems. Her email address is caroline.krejci@uta.edu. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Session XXXX Simulation of Production and Inventory Control

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Celena Miller, University of Texas Austin - Center for Space Research ; Margaret Baguio, University of Texas at Austin

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES): A Reimagining of an Onsite NASA/TSGC/UTCSR High School Internship Program Celena Miller, Margaret Baguio Texas Space Grant Consortium, Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at AustinAbstractNASA, the Texas Space Grant Consortium, and The University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Researchsupport the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) program which provides selected high school studentswith exposure to Earth and space research. Interns learn how

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Jalal Rastegary, NMSU

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Matilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas; Casey Hatfield; Jieun Kim

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Diversity

areas that thecapstone team and their peers had faced when taking the control systems course; namelyabstractness and continuity. As mentioned before, the architecture of the education tool features anoverarching real-world example of a system the student user is hoping to control. The real-worldexamples ultimately used in the tool are reflective of the engineering concentrations of the capstoneteam. The biomedical track used an example of controlling the glucose level within a human body;and the mechanical track used an example of controlling car speed. Figure 1. Screen capture of the track selection page Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC

relations, strengthens student-instructor communication, increases studentcollaboration, and fosters an active learning environment that enhances student engagement andlearning [14].The effectiveness of these instructional practices, however, have depended on two principalconditions: 1) undergraduate students residing or traveling from off-campus housing, which allowsfor the utilization of campus resources such as study spaces, books, outdoor recreation programs,computer labs, internet service, advising programs, etc., and 2) established campus practicesadopted by students, which involve the formation of study groups, attending office hours,communicating after lecture hours, etc. These two conditions have factored towards theimplementation of

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Dani Fadda P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas; Roopa Vinay, The University of Texas at Dallas

- ing and support in educational technology applications. She developed an online certification program to help faculty transition from classroom to online teaching. During the 2020 pandemic she designed and coordinated a University-wide training effort to help faculty teach remotely. She has worked with subject matter experts across disciplines to develop academic courses, certification programs, and open-source learning materials. Her background is in instructional design, LMS administration, multimedia produc- tion, and student engagement systems. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1

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Michael S Rugh, Texas A&M University; Mary Margaret Capraro; Robert M Capraro, Texas A&M University

: AnIntegrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Approach (pp. 1-5). SensePublishers.Clark, A. C., & Ernst, J. V. (2006). A model for the integration of science, technology, engineering,and mathematics. Technology and Engineering Teacher, 66(4), 24–26.Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. Macmillan.Kilpatrick, W. H. (1918). The project method. Teachers College Record. 19, 319–335.

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University; Drew Steven Casey, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University

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Assistant at Texas A&M University. He received a bachelor’s degree in Technical and Scientific Communication from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2009, and in 2011 he received a master’s degree in Asian Studies, with a focus on East-Asian security and technology issues, from Florida State University. Drew is currently working on a Master’s of Public Service & Administration.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Session XXXXThe Development of a Texas A&M